State Archives of Florida Online Catalog

The Online Catalog
allows searching and browsing of information about the State Archives of Florida's
holdings of over 40,000 cubic feet of state and local government records
and historical manuscripts. The catalog provides descriptions of over
2,700 collections and lists the contents of containers and folders in
many of those collections.

Jim Smith, the twenty-first Secretary of State, was born in Jacksonville, Florida on May 25, 1940. He was appointed executive assistant to the Secretary of State in 1967. In 1969, he was named Deputy Secretary of Commerce and subsequently became senior staff assistant to the Governor. In 1972, he left government to become a founding partner in a Tallahassee law firm. In 1977, Smith was appointed a member of the Board of Regents. He resigned this post in November 1978, when he was elected to the first of two four-year terms as Florida's Attorney General. In 1986, after an unsuccessful bid for Governor, he became Chief of Staff to Governor Bob Martinez. On August 5, 1987, he was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Secretary of State George Firestone, who had resigned. He was elected Secretary of State on November 8, 1988.

Summary:

This series consists of the daily itineraries of the Secretary of State from 1987 to 1994. The itineraries reflect the day-to-day activities of the Secretary and include appointments, events and travel records.

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